Controlling Your Social Networking Through Your E-mail
Steve Rubel had a post recently about Nutshell, a free web service that brings social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, et al) to your inbox. So I thought I’d try it.
For a lot of us, our e-mail has become the command center for our digital lives. Bill paying, Keeping up with news,stock alerts and, oh yeah, communicating with friends have all become part of sorting through our inbox. What was frustrating though was that to keep up with the ever-expanding social network world you had to either go to a website or use an application (like Seesmic Desktop or Tweetdeck).
But Nutshell aims to fix that. You can customize which social networks it checks, what information you receive (followers, unfollows, wall posts, etc), and when what time(s) you have it all sent to you.
I’ve been using it about 2 days and my only complaint so far is that my LinkedIn account took 2 trys to work. But otherwise it delivers as promised and could be a huge timesaver.
The best part? You can comment, retweet, like, etc right from the e-mail.
Here’s a screenshot of what the e-mails look like:
There’s a lot of discussion at my office about what kind of video works on the web and what doesn’t.
Well, it used to be that a mere video presence on the web gave your brand, candidate or cause a leg up. But, I think it’s safe to say those days are gone. Long gone, probably. By now, your target audience just assumes you have video on the web. And because they assume that, they may not even go looking for you. So, advertisers need to find a way to stand out and cut through the noise.
There are a couple of ways to stand out, but one is to raise the bar for the concept and production levels of your videos. The video below has a fantastic concept, great production and breaks free of the :30 or :60 “try to cram it all in” mentality.
Ezra Klein’s blog has this interesting post about how, according to the rule that normally governs the Fed, interest rates should actually be negative right now. In other words, you’d be getting paid to borrow money.
